<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Ramdas S <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ramdas@developeriq.com">ramdas@developeriq.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Let me explain.<br><br>Starting a society even not for profit has its own little legal tangles and will also cost some monies (less than 10 K). But most importantly you'll need to keep accounts, ensure that returns are filed, even if not much transaction happen etc etc<br>
<br>See I dont see the costs scaling upwards of 1.1 L or so for a single day event, and we have about 5-6 different expenses, and it'll be better if the sponsors are alloted some expense or other. Saves us money management.<br>
<br>This is possible if the plans are for one day event, but for a larger scale we may have to get some bigger sponsors. I am purely looking at Python focused companies chipping in, who can claim the expense as their opex.</blockquote>
<div><br>Sponsors are the most important, since without sponsor interest you<br>don't have an event.<br><br>While we are talking away to glory, has anyone tried to measure the<br>pulse of the prospective sponsors to see whether we could get the <br>
kind of money and support required for having a 3 day PyCon India<br>in September ? <br><br>Without that all this is just that, talk.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<br>R</font></blockquote></div><br>-Anand<br><br><br><br>